Sections:

Collection Overview

Title:

Cornelius C. Moore papers

Date range:

1922-1970

Creator:

Moore, Cornelius, 1885-1970

Extent:

3 box(es)

Abstract:

The papers of Cornelius C. Moore Esq., an avid silver collector, contains correspondence and photographs that relate directly to Moore's silver collecting. Additional material includes documentation on a number exhibitions in the 1960s for Moore's silver collection. The collection was the basis for the publication of the art-history book, "American-Silver 1670-1830: The Silver Moore Collection at Providence College." Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation and Providence College, (1980).